Inside a super fast CSS engine: Quantum CSS (aka Stylo) - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
Project Quantum is a major rewrite of Firefox’s internals to make Firefox fast. We’re swapping in parts from our experimental browser, Servo, and making massive improvements to other parts of ...
[PDF] Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications | Semantic Scholar
The same simplicity that enabled the Web’s rapid proliferation also creates a gap between the experiences Web interaction designers can provide and the experiences users can get from a desktop application. Despite this, Web interaction designers can’t help but feel a little envious of our colleagues who create desktop software. Desktop applications have a richness and responsiveness that has seemed out of reach on the Web. The same simplicity that enabled the Web’s rapid proliferation also creates a gap between the experiences we can provide and the experiences users can get from a desktop application.
When we think about it, our whole industry depends on our faith in a handful of “black boxes” few of us fully understand: browsers. We hand over our HTML, CSS, JavaScript, cross our fin…